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pretheoretically

pretheoretically adverb: before taking any theoretical considerations into account.

Adverb

pretheoretically (not comparable)

  1. Before taking any theoretical considerations into account.
    • I don’t dispute that some cases of this sort—involving a subject who differentially doubts what, pretheoretically, we would take to be one and the same thought-content, entertained twice—might be best described by hypothesizing a difference in content.2007 December 29, Sanford Goldberg, “Must Differences in Cognitive Value be Transparent?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI

Origin of pretheoretically

From pretheoretical + -ly.

Questions about pretheoretically

What does pretheoretically mean?
Pretheoretically means before taking any theoretical considerations into account.
What part of speech is pretheoretically?
Pretheoretically is an adverb.

Words near pretheoretically in the dictionary

  1. pretheistic
  2. pretheological
  3. pretheology
  4. pretheoretical
  5. pretheoreticality
  6. pretheoretically
  7. pretherapeutic
  8. pretherapeutical
  9. pretherapeutically
  10. pretherapy
  11. prethermal

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